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IjL. H. ZANDERS, ARTICLE CARRIE-R.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3,1918

1,318,252., Patented 0m. 7, 1919.

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UNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS II. ZANDERS, F MALVEBN, IOWA.

ARTICLE-CARRIER.

4 for automobile running boards, the board and the body of the automobile forming the bottom and rear wall of the carrier, and my. device forming the front and end walls, and being collapsible, so that when not in use the said end and front walls lie flat on the running board.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, the parts hein in position for use.

Tig. 2 is a plan view, the front member and one'end being in upright position, and one end folded down.

Fig. 3 is an end view, the running board being shown in dotted lines.

In the drawing A designates the running board. The device consists in two bars 1 which lie transversely across the running boardand at their front ends carry clamping members 2 with the usual screws 3. They are provided with transversely placed and perforated lugs 4 through which pass rods 5, one for each bar.

The end frames are hinged on these bars and comprise curved rear and top member 6 the vertical members 7, extending from the rods to the top members, and the horizontal members 8, these terms being descriptive of the parts when lifted in position for use.

-The members 8 ofachend member extend forwardly beyond the vertical members 7 to which they are secured.

Angled corner posts 9 are hinged to the clamps 2 and connected by a rod 10. The

.lower portions of each post are cut away to Specification of Letters Patent.

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post to post, and the vertical strips 12.

The'device being clamped to the running board the ends maybe folded inwardly on the running board, and the side or front member folded down on the ends. .When" the front member isliftd into vertical position it is stopped by the shoulders 9 and 2; coming into engagement, and then the ends; may be lifted into vertical position, being stopped by the projecting portions of-the members 7 engaging the corner posts, as shown most clearly by the dotted portions of said members in Fig. 3. 1

The articles placediwithin the carrier will prevent the walls from moving inwardly.

Suitcases and bundles can be readily carried in a device of this kind without strapping or danger of their falling from the running board. No locking devices are required to hold the parts in position, and

clamps adapted to be secured to a running board, a hinged front member carried by said clamps, hinged end members carried by the clamps, all of said members being adapted to fold inwardly, the end members the front member from further outward movement. I

2. A device of the kind described comprising two parallel clamping bars, corner posts of angle iron hinged thereto, strips connecting the posts and forming a. front wall. rods carried by the clamps, end members hinged to the rods and having strips adapted when the end members are lifted into verticai position to engage the. angled posts on their inner faces.

3. The combination with a running board, transversely arranged bars thereon carrying clamping members at their front ends; lugs on the bars, rods mounted in the lugs. end members hinged on said rods, angled corner posts hingedto the clamping members, said members having shoulders, and the posts having coiiperating shoulders, and

-when in vertical position being stopped by a front member carried by the posts, as and nected in substantially the plane of the-front for the purpose set forth. 3 I member, the end members being hinged to 10 4. The combination with a running board, fold" toward each other on the running bars lying transversely across the upper face board,"the front member being. adapted to 5 of said board, clamping members carried by fold inwardly on said end members.

the front ends '01? the bars, a hinged front In testimony whereof I'afiix my signature. member carried by the clamps, and hinged end members carried byithe bars and con- LOUIS H. ZANDERS: 

